So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.

The scientific world, the materialistic world, the world of commerce, the world of business, the world of individualism, the world of capitalism, world of communism - all these worlds are the old story now. Where we think we exploit nature, we exploit people. Market rules, profit rules, money rules. We work for name, fame, power, money, profit. That's the old story.

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.